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Thursday, March 23, 2017

STABCO

Randy and Raymond
are brothers who don't have much. They have crummy part jobs with a nasty
boss. Ray is a little simpleminded and Randy looks out for him but
sometimes resents it. When two men approach them and offer them jobs in a
cult like sales operation, Raymond jumps at the chance. Randy,
reluctantly, goes along. At one of their first stops, they encounter a
kidnap victim whom the rescue and are then regarded as heroes. This was a
crazy but well told story. It's not my usual type of fare but I liked
it. It's a type of story called transgressive fiction, in which protagonists
usually find illegal solutions to problems. Part of what I liked about
the book was the bizarre nature of the story, where everything was plausible,
but just a little out of the normal realm of possibility. I would
definitely recommend it to adults who like stories with a hint of craziness and
a sense of illicitness.